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Silver Link entered service with a demonstration journey from King's Cross on 27 September 1935. It reached a speed of 112.5 mph (181 km/h ), breaking all previous UK records.[1] The record provoked the LNER and their chief rival the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) into a highly competitive speed war, each attempting to outdo the other by building ever faster locomotives. The main protagonists were Sir Nigel Gresley , LNER's chief mechanical engineer, and his counterpart at LMS, Sir William Stanier .

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Silver Link entered service with a demonstration journey from King's Cross on 27 September 1935. It reached a speed of 112.5 mph (181 km/h ), breaking all previous UK records.[1] The record provoked the LNER and their chief rival the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) into a highly competitive speed war, each attempting to outdo the other by building ever faster locomotives. The main protagonists were Sir Nigel Gresley , LNER's chief mechanical engineer, and his counterpart at LMS, Sir William Stanier .